Binance, the world’s leading cryptocurrency platform, has finally agreed to burn Lunc coins as proposed by the Lunc community.
On Monday, the cryptocurrency trading platform announced it has burnt 5.596 billion Lunc coins worth $1.863 million in its first-ever Lunc burn.
The company disclosed this in a statement released on its platform and obtained by Investors King.
Explaining the modalities for burning going forward, Binance said it would be in batches and would be done every Monday. The next Lunc burn would be on October 10, 2022.
Binance management first rejected the idea of burning customers’ coins without their approval following Lunc’s community proposal of a 1.2% tax, a process generally initiated by cryptocurrency projects to reduce supply and prop up the price of tokens.
Lunc community immediately started calling for a boycott of the platform, saying Binance agreed to the decision from the onset and even demanded that Lunc community commenced it from their end before the exchange will implement the same on-chain.
Eventually, Binance agreed to burn its fee (commission from Lunc transactions) and not customers’ coins. On Monday, Binance sent its first burn coin to a burnt wallet with transaction ID of F6B1CB656843438013D3C9A5948A1353AA3C65F6AE30D627AF791EEE0311AA36
Binance said “The calculation of total trading fees on LUNC spot and margin trading pairs to be burned from the previous week will be done every Monday at 00:00:00 (UTC). The subsequent on-chain burn transaction and weekly report will be updated by each Tuesday at 00:00:00 (UTC).
“The first batch of trading fees on LUNC spot and margin trading pairs to be burned will be calculated from 2022-09-21 at 00:00:00 (UTC) to 2022-10-01 at 23:59:59 (UTC). The fee rebates on LUNC spot and margin trading pairs toward Binance Spot Liquidity Provider Program for the period of 2022-09-21 at 00:00:00 (UTC) till 2022-09-27 00:00:00 (UTC) will be excluded from the burn amount.
“Trading fees on LUNC spot and margin trading pairs that collected in a token other than LUNC (e.g., USDT, BUSD and BNB) will be converted to LUNC with the real-time exchange rates on Binance every Monday at 00:00:00 (UTC).
“LUNC burn mechanism will not affect trading fees on LUNC spot and margin trading pairs, with the maximum trading fee rate remaining 0.1%.”